An optimization problem in thermal insulation with Robin boundary conditions

DOI10.1080/03605302.2021.1931885MaRDI QIDQ5012791zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Francesco Della Pietra, Carlo Nitsch, Riccardo Scala, Cristina Trombetti

Publication date 25 November 2021

Published in Communications in Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.02193

zbMATH Keywords

Robin boundary conditionsconvective boundary conditionsoptimal insulation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetries, invariants, etc. in context of PDEs (35B06) Boundary value problems for second-order elliptic equations (35J25) Methods involving semicontinuity and convergence; relaxation (49J45) Foundations of thermodynamics and heat transfer (80A05)

Abstract: We study thermal insulating of a bounded body $Omegasubsetmathbb{R}^n$. Under a prescribed heat source $fgeq0$, we consider a model of heat transfer between $Omega$ and the environment determined by convection; this corresponds, before insulation, to Robin boundary conditions. The body is then surrounded by a layer of insulating material of thickness of size $varepsilon>0$, and whose conductivity is also proportional to $varepsilon$. This corresponds to the case of a small amount of insulating material, with excellent insulating properties. We then compute the $Gamma$-limit of the energy functional $F_{v}arepsilon$ and prove that this is a functional $F$ whose minimizers still satisfy an elliptic PDEs system with a non uniform Robin boundary condition depending on the distribution of insulating layer around $Omega$. In a second step we study the maximization of heat content (which measures the goodness of the insulation) among all the possible distributions of insulating material with fixed mass, and prove an optimal upper bound in terms of geometric properties. Eventually we prove a conjecture which states that the ball surrounded by a uniform distribution of insulating material maximizes the heat content.

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